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Datasets

Research datasets from RMBL, the Spatial Data Platform, and partner repositories. Coverage filters use data years (when measurements were made), not publication dates.

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Place

Gunnison Basin (811)East River (201)Upper Colorado River Basin (168)Upper East River Beaver Pond (161)East River Watershed (144)Crested Butte (133)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (126)Gunnison County (94)Gothic (72)Rocky Mountains (71)

Method

Random Forest climate downscaling (52)Piezometer groundwater monitoring (50)drive-point piezometer groundwater sampling (48)standard water chemistry analysis suite (38)airborne aeromagnetic surveying (34)Satellite-based snow disappearance tracking (32)gravimetric method (32)Multiscale Model to Model Cloud Compare method (32)Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (26)RTK-GNSS cross-section surveying (26)

Taxon

Centrocercus urophasianus (40)Centrocercus urophasianus or Centrocercus minimus (40)sage grouse (40)Centrocercus (40)Centrocercus minimus (40)Marmota (39)Gunnison sage-grouse (39)Yellow-bellied Marmot (36)Tamias minimus (34)Boechera stricta (32)

Sampling Frequency

sub-daily (238)daily (70)weekly (36)monthly (10)annual (165)multi-year (66)one-time (539)

Variables

air temperature (118)elevation (115)precipitation (101)soil moisture (92)snow depth (88)snow water equivalent (50)wind speed (48)soil temperature (45)streamflow (36)relative humidity (36)wind direction (33)water temperature (32)sex (31)discharge (31)

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Keywords

cations (22)anions (22)river corridor (19)metabolite (18)organic matter (18)mass spectrometry (18)hyporheic zone (18)metabolomics (18)fticr-ms (17)pore water (17)evapotranspiration (16)groundwater level (16)neon campaign 2018 (14)patriculate/dissolved organic carbon (13)

Format

geotiff (174)csv (9)

License

CC-BY 4.0 (466)Other / unknown (261)CC0 (232)CC-BY-SA 4.0 (13)CC-BY-NC 4.0 (2)MIT (1)

Repository

Other repositories (1094)ESS-DIVE (224)RMBL SDP (174)

ESS-DIVE

Data and scripts from: “Denoising autoencoder for reconstructing sensor observation data and predicting evapotranspiration: noisy and missing values repair and uncertainty quantification”

Published 2025Data 2019–2023East River · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Snodgrass Mountain

ESS-DIVE41-year record

Integrated Hourly Meteorological Database of 20 Meteorological Stations (1981-2022) for Watershed Function SFA Hydrological Modeling

Published 2025Data 1981–2022East River · Rocky Mountains · Upper Colorado River Basin

ESS-DIVE

Continuous sensor suite measurements of weather, energy, soil and flux at four PumpHouse sites at the East River, Colorado.

Published 2023Data 2019–2020direct downloadEast River · Upper Colorado River Basin

Other repositories

Meteorological data from the Billy Bar site at the East River, Colorado.

Published 2023Data 2015–20171 citationdirect downloadEast River · East River Watershed · Upper Colorado River Basin

ESS-DIVE

Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) of Meteorological Time Series Data for Billy Barr, East River, Colorado USA

Published 2021Data 2015–2017East River · Rocky Mountains · Upper Colorado River Basin